Unrated Critic Reviews for Hannibal Rising

The New York Times

Hannibal Rising was apparently conceived as both a novel and a movie  the film, with a screenplay by Harris, is scheduled to open in February  and its entirely possible that the writer decided to grit his teeth and choke out a teenage-Hannibal story just for the sake of seeing his monster pl...

The New York Times

This is what Thomas Harriss readers would least like to hear from Mr. Harriss flesh-eating celebrity, Dr. Hannibal Lecter: I deeply regret any pain I may have caused for the victims and their families.

The Guardian

The most powerful part of Hannibal Rising, the long-awaited fourth novel about the cannibal serial killer Hannibal Lecter, is the first section, which is, in essence, a Second World War version of the story of Hansel and Gretel.

Entertainment Weekly

Under her tutelage, Hannibal learns the martial arts, just like Bruce Wayne or the Karate Kid, and at one point he dons the armor's facial mask, with its sticklike ''teeth.'' It looks very much like  you guessed it  the mask used to subdue Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs.

Entertainment Weekly

I knew I was in trouble when the prologue promised the reader could ''watch as the beast within turns from the teat and, working upwind, enters the world.''
Hannibal, no surprise, turns out to be descended from one Hannibal the Grim.

The Bookbag

Hannibal Rising is the first episode of the story of Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter, the terrifying doctor from the Silence of The Lambs, Hannibal and Red Dragon novels and it is gripping, nerve-jangling and masterful in equal measure.

USA Today

You know that creepy face mask Hannibal Lecter sports in The Silence of the Lambs?Well, the reading public should imprison author Thomas Harris in it, because he is ruining one of the great villain franchises of all time.The evil Hannibal Lecter has appeared in three earlier books by Harris: 1981...

BookPage

Slate

The first full-length biography of Virginia Woolf's husband—longtime The Nation literary editor, co-editor of the Political Quarterly, author, critic, and Bloomsbury member—has critics revisiting Leonard's contributions to literary and intellectual life, though the San Francisco Chronicle caution...